When my eyes are open, I will physically startle at loud sounds, especially if I cannot see the source directly. When my eyes are closed and someone slams a door, I will see a flash of red or white, and often my body will jerk enough to rouse me. I think the colors are associated with any anger I might perceive in the noise. If I hear loud voices, pounding footsteps, etc. I think it tends to be red. Loud noises without any accompanying sounds seem to be white. That’s the extent of it, though.

However, there are times when I have my glasses off and I have the strangest sensation that I can see individual molecules of air move. I have never done hallucinogens in my life and do not drink or smoke. I do, however, suffer from mental illness that is unrelated to but can have schizotypal symptoms (which includes hallucinations). I have experienced auditory hallucinations during times of extreme stress and it is like hearing a radio playing music a few rooms away with the door shut. You can hear vague music or perhaps people talking, but nothing is distinguishable. I wonder if there is a correlation with mental illness and synesthesia.

greetings,

Frank G

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I’ve written an article, and another was mostly done, but hard to finish them when I have no idea if/when will be used.

Frank G ;-))

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And Alan and Jason your not the only ones who make D I stories.

Frank G

Yeah, that’s not synesthesia, that’s the third- or fourth-grade teacher’s assignments for which subject goes with which divider in the binder. I have similar associations. The dividers came in a pack of five: red (math), clear/white (English), blue (history), orange (science), and yellow (blank paper). These associations stuck with me throughout my education: my Calculus binder was red because the math divider tab had been red since well before long division, et cetera. Things got confusing around middle school when there were suddenly electives and languages and more than four classes and I had to add green (Latin) and other, less constant, colors.

I had a synesthetic classmate. She was the only one who did better than I did on every test, probably directly because of her grapheme-color synesthesia.

They discovered that auditory-visual (sound-color) synesthesia was linked to regions on four different chromosomes, meaning that the cause is more complex than originally supposed. They don’t really say much more than that about the genetic origins of synesthesia. The article mostly describes the condition and how it manifests itself. One fascinating tidbit is the speculation over a possible link between synesthesia and Asperger’s syndrome, citing a man with both conditions who has memorized 22,000 digits of pi.

Here’s the link:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/09/synesthesia.genes/index.html

Just some additional info on a great DI article!